What Crosses My Mind

  • Why Do I Keep This Site?

    If someone were to deep dive into my writing they would probably have a reaction of concern. The truth is this is just an avenue to express my frame of mind. Sometimes I am really flying and other times simply fleeing from my fears. I need everyone to know that this is just an examination…

  • Five

    When once I thought my life would change I found Wherever might be known a similar ground. So often felt we live inside sweet dreams. That face of truth a spoken tease it seems. When once I knew might she help create Two souls, would now in life, in love, relate. Such is the magic…

  • Something About Love

    When I think about Thanksgiving, I remember eating too much food, playing in the snow outside my cousin’s home. I remember waiting for my Granny to let us all come and sit down, but before that one of the uncles, sometimes my dad, was carving the turkey. I remember traveling to Minneapolis or Duluth or…

  • Quiet Bedside Notions

    I wake in the morning with faint memory,  My dreams take me places I want. Places I remember and yet I might yearn. For the fiction that rides the tide of emotion. Now it’s only a flash of pleasantries.  ~ Now it’s all a story to tell someone, Simple responses to a day of wishing,…

  • Lost In Love Together

    We would walk togetherMaybe holding hands,Or just side by sideIn our own thoughts,We would share together.Sometimes there is an envyWhen a couple strolls byEnjoying a sunsetWalking together.A certain sadnessComes with age whenWe measure out the years,Alone or together.I wonder about her,If she has a walkingPartner to share her lifeTo feel an autumn together.I guess I’ll…

  • Christmas With My Coffee

    I have music playing, the kind reminds me of my childhood, sitting around the tree, listening to my dad, make Christmas morning bacon. I’m holding my coffee in my hand I have a smile on my face, listening to the past, feeling a bit of life’s Grace. It’s Christmas morning, I know I have my…

  • Finding Peace

    I would that I feel a day like this every day. I sit in my chair, warmth of a coffee cup in my hand, wondering about all the moments ahead of my life. ~ I would that I navigate my hours with simple logic, not wanting to answer all the questions I can never achieve…

  • I knew a woman one time

    I knew a woman one time, long before marriage swept me away, I could dance alone in my room in my own way. She was my truth, she listened and then might smile, I could tell her anything, in our long walks, finding trails along the river. I knew a woman one time, she called…

  • Snowfall

    I sat at my window watching the snow this morning. It reminded me of days of my childhood. I could see the snow falling everywhere covering trees, benches, and walkways. I was reminded of my childhood sitting at our picture window, watching cars slipping up and down that little hill nearby. The window is where…

  • Finding Self

    I read a book the other day, pointed in a direction seemed attainable if. We all have those wonders carry us through the day, a decision in an hour affects the rest of our lives, well maybe it does, at least in that moment. What about another way, a journey toward a risk, what about…